Marlins Notes: Kennedy, Reed, Cantu

A couple of Fish-related tidbits from the land of Dwyane Wade and Dexter Morgan tonight….

Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald reports that the Marlins have made finding relief pitching a priority over replacing Ross Gload. Jackson mentioned Adam Kennedy and Jeremy Reed as left-handed hitters "mentioned in informal talks" that Florida might be interested in signing once they take care of their bullpen.

Cantu didn’t lite it up his last couple of years with the Rays either. Would rather see the Fish move Cantu than Uggla though, they have got to have somebody to protect Ross and Ramirez and Cantu is just too streaky.Omazing, Cantu does have a decent 3B glove, his 1B glove isn’t exactly the best, but compared to what Huff had (realize he wasn’t FT 1B) he is a GG guy.Cantu can get on a hot streak and just rake everything, then get ice cold. Sound like somebody else the O’s have?

the O’s wouldn’t want to give up Bergesen though. his downside at this point is something like 4.50 ERA, 150 IP average for the next 5 seasons, which is a lot more valuable than a couple of years of Cantu. I’m guessing a deal based around someone like Troy Patton or David Hernandez is more feasible – not really any more upside than Bergesen, and significantly more unproven.

God will the marlins quit being babies and just trade uggla? I mean Cantu is the better hitter, he fields better, and he came up in the Rays organitzation as a second baseman with power, basically Utley light.

NO WAY the O’s ship Bergesen for Jorge Cantu, are you guys all insane? we have stated a million times that we want to grow young arms and BUY bats, not trade young arms for bats. We have Snyder and Bell waiting to come up – why would we trade away a potential ace?

Bergesen is a 23 yr old starting pitcher who has upside and makings of a starting pitcher (i.e. groundball rates, low pitchcounts, etc..). There is no way a regime, who is trying to solve a decade-long problem of lack of pitching, trades away a promising young pitcher to fill a corner infield spot with an average veteran. If you consider that the Os already have strong prospects for those positions, it should remove all doubt.The best the Marlins could hope for is a decent package of prospects to give depth some upside. Bergesen might not be the highest touted rookie pitcher of ’09, but he was surely the most successful of the bunch. Until an opposing hitter knocked him out of the game by smacking a single into his shin bone, he was looking like the best starter of the whole rotation. No way the Os trade him. No way. And if you think it might be possible, no way.